update

[wookie_x]

On Wednesday of this week I got my CPAP machine. For those of you who don't know it's a machine that helps me breathe when I'm sleeping. I suffer from sleep apnea, which can be somewhat bothersome and cause a host of other problems. I've used it twice so far (of course). Neither time did I make it all the way through the night without pulling

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[elegantelbow]

Every time I get out of the habit of using my CPAP, and I start again, it always takes me three or four nights before I get sufficiently accustomed to it to sleep with it through the night.

I think it took me about two weeks to get used to the CPAP in the first place when I originally got it.

Do you have a heated humidifier for yours?

[elegantelbow]

Woah! Oxygen?!? That's very serious!

[wookie_x]

Ok, I had just gotten the call when I made the edit. It's not an oxygen bottle but an oxygen accumulator. I have to turn it on before going to bed and let it run for a bit. Yeah, I guess I wasn't breathing much at night.

[elegantelbow]

They've told you that the sleep apnea is a significant contributor to depression, haven't they?

[wookie_x]

Oh yeah. I've been looking for, hoping that there was a core problem that was exacerbating all my other problems, and the apnea sure fits the bill. If you're not sleeping you can't lose weight, your depression gets worse, blood pressure goes up, etc. Now that the apnea is being treated, there is the possibility that I'll be able to start putting much of the rest back in line.

[wookie_x]

Yeah, I have a heated humidifier on mine. It's kinda cool.

[elegantelbow]

Nice. My first one, I think I didn't have a humidifier at all, and then I had an unheated one.